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Lawmakers had considered opening state waters year-round, but the legislation died when a shrimp trawling ban was inserted at the last minute.
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Language added to House Bill 96 makes clear that county and municipal governments cannot regulate pet shops. Some lawmakers say that's a boost to shops that sell animals from puppy mills.
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Republicans in Congress have advanced a bill cutting clean energy tax credits, and the industry is bracing for the impacts. The legislation targets incentives like the 30% residential solar tax credit extended by the Inflation Reduction Act.
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President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. With it back in the House, community organizations are bracing for the effects of cuts to the federal food assistance program.
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The new memo from N.C. State professors says the fuel costs to power new natural gas plants could be a key price driver for Duke Energy customers in the coming decades.
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An empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom Tillis would buck his party and its leaders to vote down President Trump's signature domestic policy package. It's one of a dozen hospitals that have closed in North Carolina over the last two decades.
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President Donald Trump's megabill could cost North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for a federal food assistance program. Both the House and Senate versions of the megabill would shift part of the program's cost to the states.
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U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis says the Senate’s current megabill would effectively end Medicaid expansion in North Carolina — and that’s the main reason he’s opposing the bill.
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says he won't seek reelection. That news Sunday comes one day after he announced his opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package because of its reductions to health care programs.
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Moments before the Hurricane Helene relief package was passed by both chambers, legislators struck a controversial provision.
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The top Democrat in the state House, Rep. Robert Reives, says he's frustrated with GOP lawmakers' inability to pass a budget or even a stopgap spending bill this year.
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The state legislature gave final approval this week to three different bills to ban diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs.